What is Ravencoin? To us, the RVN community, it's a new open-source project intended to see if a use case specific blockchain designed to be focused on the transfer of assets can develop technology which provides security or functional advantages for certain projects. Specifically working on things like RSK, which will allow solidity to work on this chain, will be huge for Ravencoin in the future. RVN was launched January 3rd 2018 with very little info regarding the future of the project. Since then, several community members have learned that there is an active development team on this coin, and the super clean wallet client and lightning fast network are only the beginning. The RVN team is launching their coin in the spirit of Bitcoin, code first. We hope to keep you updated in this thread as to work being done on RVN, as that information becomes available to us. But you don't need to wait for us, or take our word for it.

Ravencoin IS open source, and ANYONE is free to contribute to the project, please, join the team in GitHub!

Ravencoin was launched in the interest of fair distribution. There is no ICO, no pre-mine, and you can mine RVN on readily available consumer grade hardware! Several of us have been mining this coin since launch, and can attest that you can still currently hit blocks solo mining with your CPU through the wallet client, how long this will last, we can not say (Update: as of this writing February 2018, 6 RVN pools exist, solo mining has officially become difficult). We have learned, however, that the team is very dedicated to making RVN an ASIC resistant project now and into the future. We believe in RVN as a project and aim to help the project grow, and we're happy to have you join us!

Whitepaper for X16R algorithm is released revealing a new solution to specialized mining hardware. January 25th 2018

Ravencoin was launched to the world January 3rd, 2018 publicly. It was the vision of the developers to launch the coin with minimal advertising. This ANN was created 11 days later by the community in an effort to spread awareness for the project. During those 11 days between launch and this posting, approx. 0.005% of the total RVN supply was mined, publicly, by those who were aware of the project leading up to launch on January 3rd.

During Ravencoins launch weekend 1300 miners began mining the first RVN blocks, that number then climbed 4300 miners within the first week. All miners fairly participated in RavenCoin's public launch prior to this community lead ANN.

More to come, contact us if you are interested in helping set up tools!Bounties:NEW Development Bounties:LIVE 500,000 RVN: Finished AMD GPU Miner LIVEPayment will be made to a single party upon verification of your miner by the community. Once you believe you have a complete, working GPU miner, please contact Kaigeta for verification and payment here, or on Discord/Telegram.Thank you to tpruvot for completing the NVIDIA GPU miner! Bounty has been paid!

We are looking for qualified individuals to translate this ANN thread. We WILL be checking to make sure your translation is fluent, so don't waste our time or yours by sending us a Google translated document. We do not have the resources to go back over the past month and honor ANN reservations. Please reach out to Kai#3620 on the Ravencoin Discord channel to reserve a language. Payment will be made to a single party upon CONFIRMATION that your translation is fluent and accurate!

Please consider donating to the Ravencoin community fund to help fund our bounties!Development Donation Address: RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksHExplorer Link:http://threeeyed.info/address/RT2r9oGxQxbVE1Ji5p5iPgrqpNQLfc8ksH100% of collected funds will be used for things like new pools, added network tools for RVN, new mining clients, and further code development.

1: Download Wallet, launch Raven-QT2: Encrypt wallet, wait for wallet to sync3: On top menu, click "Help" and select "Debug Window"4: In the new window, select the "Console" tab4.5: We recommend making sure your processor heat sink is free of dust, and you use a temp monitor like http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ to ensure you do not reach temps that could damage your hardware.5: Type "setgenerate true X" where X is the number of processor cores you want to mine with, into the console, hit enter.6: Wait a minute. Then type "getmininginfo" into the console, hit enter. Your current hashspeed will be to the left of "hashespersec" if you've got a value other than 0, you're mining!Full Mining guide:https://virtopia.ca/how-to-mine-ravencoin-rvn/

Note from the community:Please keep in mind RVN has been released in the spirit of open source and community driven development. We will provide info as best we are able, but can not guarantee immediate answers to your questions. Be advised we will be actively monitoring the thread to resolve any issue you may encounter, but PLEASE search the thread to make sure your issue has not been resolved already.Please post any code, bug, or error related issues to GitHub, thank you!